31:57 "so if our opponent wants to get rid of the sterling grove, they have to cash in-" Ugin the spirit dragon: "I missed the part where that's my problem"
@@brackish2386 at least with ugin his most used effect is a minus, and he's 7 mana, albeit colourless oko is just a 3 drop that can essentially "kill" things with a +1 effect.
Second matchup agaonst first opponent: they "always have a backup plan"-ed themselves, sat through half the drain combo playing out, then emoted some love. Great sportsmanship!
Instead of casting Leyline of Sanctity, your opponent could have cast Phyrexian Unlife, and your combo no longer kills your opponent (because your combo technically does not deal damage). Then, if your combo occurred, it would actually result in a draw :)
Leyline and Tainted remedy stops the combo, since Sanguine requires you to target an opponent, while tainted remedy prevents you from gaining life to begin with, stopping the Sanguine trigger, so casting leyline did make sense in that it was a 2nd protection piece vs the combo. Phyrexian unlife also fits the category for the above mentioned stuff in your own comment
Even if it did deal damage, does solemnity not say "Players cant gain counters"? So the combo actually works for both sides, and Phyrexian Unlife would be immortality for both of them. This was the thing I thought about, but I completely missed what you said. That's pretty cool.
To be fair, the only reason the Sanguine Bond combo is new to Arena is a technicality, in that the Sanguine Bond specific version of it is on arena for the first time. Other enablers for Exquisitie Blood combos have been around on arena for ages; Vito, the Dusk Rose as the most common one at only 3 mana, but also jankier stuff like Epicure of Blood.
I have had a paper version of this deck for years. I was thrown off when he said that people didn't know this combo exists. I was actually gonna build something similar on arena but don't have the wildcards to dump atm.
That first opponent might have been waiting to see what the win con was, or hoping you'd deck out before drawing one, given you were drawing 3 per enchantment spell and had already discarded one copy of sanguine bonds
Or even potentially decked out as the drain combo resolved. They were at 20-something life so if it had been a few turns later it might not have worked. Edit: Wait I’m dumb I was getting the Enchantress trigger mixed up with the drain combo one thinking it drew as well.
Seth said "The combo still works through Phyrexian Unlife" which is not true. Sanguine Bond doesn't do damage, so while the loop will occur, the opponent will never get poisoned, and the loop is not optional so it ends the game in a draw.
Phyrexian unlife is to protect you, not poison them. Phyrexian unlife+solemnity=protection, while sanguine bond+exquisite blood=unlimited damage on opponent. These two combos are separate.
@@bigjay506 I am fully aware of how the combos work. The comment that I referenced arose in response to the opponent stealing one of the Phyrexian Unlifes, which if the opponent had cast it would have disabled the Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood combo, since Sanguine Bond doesn't deal damage.
im willing to bet that the tainted remedy was sideboard tech that he mainly has for the mono white angels mathup (or the infinite life creature combo). honestly a pretty cool sideboard card against lifegain decks
I'm amazed it took so long for Ugin to show up in match 2. I knew he was in their deck somewhere as soon as they played Lolth and showed it wasn't a vampire deck.
I’m not gonna lie that black, super friends deck is the one deck in this entire series that I’ve actually rooted for over you Seth… sorry but also not sorry
My EDH deck does this, "Dina, Soul Steeper + Exquisite Blood" I usually run a Vito, a Sanguine Bond and Epicure of Blood to have secondary ways to combo, just in case. I can also beat my oponents into submission, with Honour Troll, Bloodthirsty Aerialist and other creatures that use life to pump themselves up
@rubeshere umori only cares about main deck, as do all companions. If he decides he needs wraths more than umori, then he sides in wrath of God, and umori is no longer a legal companion. It's a game to game thing, and he'd technically count towards the sideboard count
Playing this deck in the latest historic all access event on arena (use cards from outside your collection) - it’s so much fun!! New favorite deck for sure
I used to play with Tainted Remedy and Tree of Perdition when they were in Standard. Fun times. Match 2 is the Epitome of Arena gameplay. Big time fun Police.
I didn't pay that close attention to the mana you had available, but couldn't you have cast your first Sythis then once it was in play cast your second one to start the combo in the first game of the second match? Sythis is an enchantment so would trigger another on cast (though obviously have also legends ruled itself if the spell resolved, not that it would since you would have been infinite just before that)
I do agree that Unlife is better, but it's more complicated than that. Unlife's lack of damage prevention is a benefit, you no longer lose to stomp and questing beasts. The losing game to farewell is hit or miss. If you have over 0 life, you don't lose immediately. If under, then that is a moot point. Ugin comes down and you probably lose regardless, if you don't have removal. In fact, there are more ways to lose if you are 0 life due to removal. There are ways around it though. Nine lives has 3 major benefits. Least is the hexproof. Harder to remove with spot removal. Second benefit is you can survive longer while hoping to topdeck a solemnity. Additional copies of nine lives gives more time to survive. Additional copies of unlife are meaningless other than security against removal. Finally, you lose access to cards like teferi's protection. Doesn't save the game to phase out unlife if you have 0 life
Protip: If you're running enchantress and have a ton of card draw anyway, there are easier wincons to hit than sanguine blood combo. I personally love me a one-of approach of the second sun.
i have a similar deck, however there a couple of weaknesses that are easy to cover, a single copy of spark rupture for those planeswalkers, 2 copys of approach of the second sun for alternate win con, 2 copys of gias blessing for that mill and 2 copys of gauntlets of light to go infinite mana with sanctum weaver makes for a more reliable win when they tap out
I'm watching on my phone and I instinctively went to hit Escape on my non-existent keyboard when I saw that Ugin hit the stack against that mono-black Superfriends deck. So close!
It was fun to see all these random enchantments function well against the meta. Edit: Match 5 was absolutely nuts. Also loved seeing someone lose life to their land, triggering the combo. 😂
I’ve only seen tainted remedy once in my life and that was in a friend’s orzhov deck a year or two ago where they had a bunch of cards that pretty much doubled everyone’s health each turn.
Oh man, when your opponent lost life to their Sorin in game two, I really thought you were going to tell your opponent about repercussions for such actions.
In that last game, every time your enchantress effects drew a card, your opponent would have to ping themself. If their only win cons were reflections and bowmasters, they might have just been hard locked.
So funny, just last night I was talking to my friend about making a modern deck around this combo, as I had just made a Commander deck based off of the life gain, life loss loop. Seeing this come out, that hard lock is disgusting, I'm taking notes!
Okay, Bowmasters vs Solemnity is pretty hilarious. That poor orc army just keeps dying. Makes me wonder if there is some funny combo shenanigans with the death trigger.
I have a timeless white blue solemnity deck that can get around Ugin and nearly every other card that can beat enchantments. It's still weak to non-targeted mill, but I have a gaea's cradle in the sideboard. The issue with the deck is that you want to get down the one ring before you cast solemnity. After getting two or more counters on it, you then have an indestructible draw engine that no longer kills you and can get you to your one wincon, approach the second sun. There are several one mana noncreature counter spells like swan song and an offer you can't refuse along with Dovin's veto and some get losts to destroy planeswalkers and leylines. There aren't any greater auramancies because the one mana counter spells work much better at protecting the enchantments. There are also leylines in the main deck to protect from thoughtseizez and stifles in the sideboard to protect from channel abilities.
I play a similar deck accept I run marauding Blight-Priest instead of sanguine, which both have the same exact activated ability but it's 1 or 2 mana cheaper, and also i have soul warden in the deck. i make sure I have exquisite blood and soul warden out on the field then cast the blight-priest which since it;s a creature it'll trigger soul to have me gain a life and the loop automatically starts
37:03 Painlands have gameplay disadvantages ;) 51:07 Idk, it's one of my favourites from wayyyy back, and even I didn't realize how broken it is in LoTR and Kamigawa meta
so my combo for this decks it Orzhov Soul Warden Vito Bond. Vito does the same thing as Bond so in case I can't find it, he can help but also having Soul Warden can start the loop even on their turn. Sheoldred Apoca is also another way to start the loop and Authority of the Consul can help slow the opponent and also trigger the loop.
when they tainted remedy could we not have leyline binding tutor off a grove? i know once they hit the 2 sanguines we were done but in the lead up it didnt seem like we were definitively dead yet
The Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond isn't really a new combo to MTG:A as we had cards like Vito and Marauding Blight-Priest which have abilities similar to Sanguine Bond
When the one player activated Ramunap Ruins, they paid life, which caused Saffron to gain life, which put him at 1 life, which stopped the poison counter.
I play a very similar deck (entirely without creatures, focusing a bit more on denial effects like Runed Halo and Deafening Silence) that uses Axis of Mortality as one of the wincons :D maybe try it out instead of or next to the blood combo
Ok now im curious about an against the idds tainted remedy deck i verting target life gain to target burn since you can get more value out of life gain for the mana than burn
11:15: "I don't think there's a card they could have in a Lurrus deck they could have to get out from under this." Blot Out The Sky It is valid in a Lurrus deck and could have one shot you at any point the opponent had 8 or more available mana. They weren't playing white so definitely didn't have it, but it IS valid is a Lurrus deck (especially important to watch out for because both cards are WB, so it really could be there).
Opponent in game 1 didn’t scoop because you have yet to show a wincon, you discarded a combo piece and decks like this sometimes get greedy and only run one.
I built an oloro deck recently for edh with friends, and threw solemnity on my sideboard for a friend who runs a populate deck... I happened to run glacial chasm in my deck as the point of the deck is sort of a psuedo stax deck. Gain life and just draw the game out. I was very happy when I realized this combo works similarly to phyrexian unlife. :) Such a stupid combo when you get it off, and its weird that the decks that play these cards have means to cut back on the interactions opponents can have with it just... naturally. Like you said its just kinda build to counter a lot of meta choices right now.
I guarantee your G3 opponent saw you hover over Sanguine Bond, noticed that it said "Target" at the same moment you did, and came to the same conclusion as you at the same time, but also completely forgot about the Mt Doom they seemed to notice as well.
Considering how many cards are counters-dependent in Modern, I'd be interested to see how it works as a sideboard option in Modern. It severely slows down a lot of strategies in the format, especially Lil Sheoldred (bowmasters) and the Ring.
Phyrexian unlife +solemnity is what I've been running on commander. Now arena needs to get the best enchantment to pair up with solemnity, Decree of Silence.
26:33 They saw Sanguine bond in the spoilers and immediately put Tainted Remedy in the sideboard of all of there black decks is my guess. That or they really hate mono white lifegain.
Hey, I was wondering if there was some new against the odds decklist out. Went against someone using this deck just yesterday. I was using a modified against the odds deck myself (think eldrazi displacer and containment priest stax). Beat the hell outta the guy using this deck because I kept removing their key enchantments and beating them down with creature lands.
Anyone know why he wasn't getting poison counters in the second game against Rakdos burn? He didn't have Solemnity out. Just Phyrexian Unlife. He went negative more than once before winning.
Because the damage is done at once, aka 2 -> -3 in one game action, and the Poison counters are only added when you are at or below 0 life. If the opponent had used the damage land first he would have been forced to play Solemnity.
match 2 game 2 you had won :black market must choose a least 1 mode, so you can tutor upkeep, play 2nd piece of combo and trigger before he can use any pw or cast enchant gg :p
Why didnt you leyline bind the thing killing your lifegain? I mean yeah after he hit both your other half finisher, but before that you went total defeatist?
He said nobody knows this deck exists. I beg to differ. The exclusive blood with something that makes them lose life when you gain life has been a thing for a while. It’s the reason I hate to face decks like this and love running tainted remedy. The only wrinkle you introduced was the solemnity and can’t die combo. I might steal that idea
??? You start off saying that someone does know the deck exists, then you go on to describe a different deck altogether. I don't understand your point.
I was pointing out a slight variation of the the deck I face regularly on arena. The only difference is the never die combo that he added. Either way tainted remedy is my favorite for facing decks like this. Make sense now?
Why are you not playing the one green mana dig 5 deep for enchantments? Commune with the gods and the other one... Seems better than enchantress and you can hit lands as well...
Seth really is the type of player to be one of the nicest humans irl, and yet he still plays the most rage inducing floodgate decks 😂😂
That's how he stays nice, offloading all his misery to innocent zoomers
No shit lmao
True 👍
It’s like horror movies, the people who watch terrifying gore-y movies tend to be really chill
Well, it's 1v1 competitive. If you see him play commander, he is very different.
Seth came to lock out opponents of playing Magic. Little did he know the 5C Mono Black Superfriends player was playing 4D chess instead of Magic.
31:57 "so if our opponent wants to get rid of the sterling grove, they have to cash in-"
Ugin the spirit dragon: "I missed the part where that's my problem"
@@brackish2386 at least with ugin his most used effect is a minus, and he's 7 mana, albeit colourless
oko is just a 3 drop that can essentially "kill" things with a +1 effect.
@@drzero1131 Ugin could cost 10 mana and still be busted AF, any low curve deck just resings on the spot to an ugin.
Any low curve deck should fold when faced with a 7+ MV card. Most do.
If their opponent is able to get out their 7 drops, the low curve deck has already pretty much lost.
I can imagine that, on the inside, Seth died a little when that card came down.
Second matchup agaonst first opponent: they "always have a backup plan"-ed themselves, sat through half the drain combo playing out, then emoted some love. Great sportsmanship!
The match 2 Planeswalker deck looked super cool please play it on a future episode
Instead of casting Leyline of Sanctity, your opponent could have cast Phyrexian Unlife, and your combo no longer kills your opponent (because your combo technically does not deal damage). Then, if your combo occurred, it would actually result in a draw :)
Leyline and Tainted remedy stops the combo, since Sanguine requires you to target an opponent, while tainted remedy prevents you from gaining life to begin with, stopping the Sanguine trigger, so casting leyline did make sense in that it was a 2nd protection piece vs the combo. Phyrexian unlife also fits the category for the above mentioned stuff in your own comment
This was my thought too when Seth said that "Phyrexian Unlife doesn't interfere with our combo". It's like uh, dude, it totally stops your combo.
Killed by autotapper
Even if it did deal damage, does solemnity not say "Players cant gain counters"? So the combo actually works for both sides, and Phyrexian Unlife would be immortality for both of them.
This was the thing I thought about, but I completely missed what you said. That's pretty cool.
To be fair, the only reason the Sanguine Bond combo is new to Arena is a technicality, in that the Sanguine Bond specific version of it is on arena for the first time. Other enablers for Exquisitie Blood combos have been around on arena for ages; Vito, the Dusk Rose as the most common one at only 3 mana, but also jankier stuff like Epicure of Blood.
I have had a paper version of this deck for years. I was thrown off when he said that people didn't know this combo exists. I was actually gonna build something similar on arena but don't have the wildcards to dump atm.
Dina, Soul Steeper also works
That first opponent might have been waiting to see what the win con was, or hoping you'd deck out before drawing one, given you were drawing 3 per enchantment spell and had already discarded one copy of sanguine bonds
Or even potentially decked out as the drain combo resolved. They were at 20-something life so if it had been a few turns later it might not have worked.
Edit: Wait I’m dumb I was getting the Enchantress trigger mixed up with the drain combo one thinking it drew as well.
Or they knew they were playing against saffronolive and decided to help make content lol
Or just had a black card quest
@@nickhaze2491
Yeah they were trying to learn his lesson XD
Match two was absolutely brilliant 😂 i was laughing my ass off the whole game
Seth said "The combo still works through Phyrexian Unlife" which is not true. Sanguine Bond doesn't do damage, so while the loop will occur, the opponent will never get poisoned, and the loop is not optional so it ends the game in a draw.
Phyrexian unlife is to protect you, not poison them. Phyrexian unlife+solemnity=protection, while sanguine bond+exquisite blood=unlimited damage on opponent. These two combos are separate.
@@bigjay506 I am fully aware of how the combos work.
The comment that I referenced arose in response to the opponent stealing one of the Phyrexian Unlifes, which if the opponent had cast it would have disabled the Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood combo, since Sanguine Bond doesn't deal damage.
im willing to bet that the tainted remedy was sideboard tech that he mainly has for the mono white angels mathup (or the infinite life creature combo). honestly a pretty cool sideboard card against lifegain decks
I'm amazed it took so long for Ugin to show up in match 2. I knew he was in their deck somewhere as soon as they played Lolth and showed it wasn't a vampire deck.
Seth saying “polluted bonds” confusing the shit out of me when he did just mean sanguine bone LMAO
He also called it Sheoldred once LMAO
I’m not gonna lie that black, super friends deck is the one deck in this entire series that I’ve actually rooted for over you Seth… sorry but also not sorry
Lol that Super Friends player really heard it was Against the Odds day and said "Hold my beer."
laughed so much at Tainted Remedy
That game was wild, i want the opponents deck
"Unlife means we don't just lose to an Ugin"
Proceeds to just lose to an Ugin.
My EDH deck does this, "Dina, Soul Steeper + Exquisite Blood"
I usually run a Vito, a Sanguine Bond and Epicure of Blood to have secondary ways to combo, just in case. I can also beat my oponents into submission, with Honour Troll, Bloodthirsty Aerialist and other creatures that use life to pump themselves up
A fellow Dina fan! I didn't catch that Saunguine Bond was in the new Enchantments, now I'm excited
I have a whole deck around Solemnity in Commander, it's one of my all time favorite cards. Love seeing it as a star here.
I've used Phyrexian unlife + solemnity in a deck for the past 5-6 years. It's always nice to see other people discovering my favorite combo
This is a sweet deck! I wish I had the rares to support it!
It'd be cool to see you adapt this same deck to Historic Brawl!
Loved that Seth was outjanked. 😂😂😂😂
the sound of the orc army being created and then dying is the funniest cacophony ever
I will say, you absolutely should have put Umori as the companion. All your cards are enchantments anyway, so its just free value
What about the sideboard? Wrath of God isn't an enchantment. How does that work with Umori?
@rubeshere umori only cares about main deck, as do all companions. If he decides he needs wraths more than umori, then he sides in wrath of God, and umori is no longer a legal companion. It's a game to game thing, and he'd technically count towards the sideboard count
Seth is the best magic content creator imo. Great and engaging content combined with fun personality 🔥
Playing this deck in the latest historic all access event on arena (use cards from outside your collection) - it’s so much fun!! New favorite deck for sure
I put an axis of mortality in my deck as an alt win con. Works so well
Very fitting that game 1 opp played Hopeless Nightmare over and over when hardlocked by Seth. It truly was a hopeless nightmare.
Loving the dog panting in the background hahaha
I used to play with Tainted Remedy and Tree of Perdition when they were in Standard. Fun times.
Match 2 is the Epitome of Arena gameplay. Big time fun Police.
I didn't pay that close attention to the mana you had available, but couldn't you have cast your first Sythis then once it was in play cast your second one to start the combo in the first game of the second match? Sythis is an enchantment so would trigger another on cast (though obviously have also legends ruled itself if the spell resolved, not that it would since you would have been infinite just before that)
Really fun historic brawl combo: there and back again + Burdiclad, Telchor Engineer
Another great episode brother Set. Keep it up. 💯
I do agree that Unlife is better, but it's more complicated than that. Unlife's lack of damage prevention is a benefit, you no longer lose to stomp and questing beasts. The losing game to farewell is hit or miss. If you have over 0 life, you don't lose immediately. If under, then that is a moot point. Ugin comes down and you probably lose regardless, if you don't have removal. In fact, there are more ways to lose if you are 0 life due to removal. There are ways around it though.
Nine lives has 3 major benefits. Least is the hexproof. Harder to remove with spot removal.
Second benefit is you can survive longer while hoping to topdeck a solemnity. Additional copies of nine lives gives more time to survive. Additional copies of unlife are meaningless other than security against removal.
Finally, you lose access to cards like teferi's protection. Doesn't save the game to phase out unlife if you have 0 life
Arena really needs to add an Angel's grace. Especially now that the tainted pact/thoracle combo is in Arena
i always look forward to these prison/lockout decks
Protip: If you're running enchantress and have a ton of card draw anyway, there are easier wincons to hit than sanguine blood combo. I personally love me a one-of approach of the second sun.
Match 2 game 1 was sooooo funny! Seth layed the trap, and the opponent fell in! 😂
i have a similar deck, however there a couple of weaknesses that are easy to cover, a single copy of spark rupture for those planeswalkers, 2 copys of approach of the second sun for alternate win con, 2 copys of gias blessing for that mill and 2 copys of gauntlets of light to go infinite mana with sanctum weaver makes for a more reliable win when they tap out
I'm watching on my phone and I instinctively went to hit Escape on my non-existent keyboard when I saw that Ugin hit the stack against that mono-black Superfriends deck. So close!
I love the decks you bring and dream of one day maybe have all the cards to play them
It was fun to see all these random enchantments function well against the meta.
Edit: Match 5 was absolutely nuts. Also loved seeing someone lose life to their land, triggering the combo. 😂
I’ve only seen tainted remedy once in my life and that was in a friend’s orzhov deck a year or two ago where they had a bunch of cards that pretty much doubled everyone’s health each turn.
Oh man, when your opponent lost life to their Sorin in game two, I really thought you were going to tell your opponent about repercussions for such actions.
In that last game, every time your enchantress effects drew a card, your opponent would have to ping themself. If their only win cons were reflections and bowmasters, they might have just been hard locked.
So funny, just last night I was talking to my friend about making a modern deck around this combo, as I had just made a Commander deck based off of the life gain, life loss loop. Seeing this come out, that hard lock is disgusting, I'm taking notes!
Okay, Bowmasters vs Solemnity is pretty hilarious. That poor orc army just keeps dying. Makes me wonder if there is some funny combo shenanigans with the death trigger.
@5:00 Being unable to die from being at 0 and giving the opponent 3 cards anyways just to give them that spark of hope
I have a timeless white blue solemnity deck that can get around Ugin and nearly every other card that can beat enchantments. It's still weak to non-targeted mill, but I have a gaea's cradle in the sideboard. The issue with the deck is that you want to get down the one ring before you cast solemnity. After getting two or more counters on it, you then have an indestructible draw engine that no longer kills you and can get you to your one wincon, approach the second sun. There are several one mana noncreature counter spells like swan song and an offer you can't refuse along with Dovin's veto and some get losts to destroy planeswalkers and leylines. There aren't any greater auramancies because the one mana counter spells work much better at protecting the enchantments. There are also leylines in the main deck to protect from thoughtseizez and stifles in the sideboard to protect from channel abilities.
The hilarity of this video alone makes it worth it.
I play a similar deck accept I run marauding Blight-Priest instead of sanguine, which both have the same exact activated ability but it's 1 or 2 mana cheaper, and also i have soul warden in the deck. i make sure I have exquisite blood and soul warden out on the field then cast the blight-priest which since it;s a creature it'll trigger soul to have me gain a life and the loop automatically starts
Match 2s planeswalker deck was insane. Some choices made no sense to me, like the one mana vampires lol. I wish I could see a full list
37:03 Painlands have gameplay disadvantages ;)
51:07 Idk, it's one of my favourites from wayyyy back, and even I didn't realize how broken it is in LoTR and Kamigawa meta
I do this, but Emergency Tithe combo. Finisher is blue sun with the XXX treasures you have.
honestly I expected a lot more farewells than there were
so my combo for this decks it Orzhov Soul Warden Vito Bond. Vito does the same thing as Bond so in case I can't find it, he can help but also having Soul Warden can start the loop even on their turn. Sheoldred Apoca is also another way to start the loop and Authority of the Consul can help slow the opponent and also trigger the loop.
Lifegain is so prevalent I am surprised you weren't expecting the tainted remedy.
when they tainted remedy could we not have leyline binding tutor off a grove? i know once they hit the 2 sanguines we were done but in the lead up it didnt seem like we were definitively dead yet
The Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond isn't really a new combo to MTG:A as we had cards like Vito and Marauding Blight-Priest which have abilities similar to Sanguine Bond
Game two was excellent! :-)
seth forgetting his extra sterling groves can find his combo piece is painful
When the one player activated Ramunap Ruins, they paid life, which caused Saffron to gain life, which put him at 1 life, which stopped the poison counter.
I play a very similar deck (entirely without creatures, focusing a bit more on denial effects like Runed Halo and Deafening Silence) that uses Axis of Mortality as one of the wincons :D maybe try it out instead of or next to the blood combo
Ok now im curious about an against the idds tainted remedy deck i verting target life gain to target burn since you can get more value out of life gain for the mana than burn
Tainted remedies are counter play to life gain decks, and this deck technically is a life gain deck
11:15:
"I don't think there's a card they could have in a Lurrus deck they could have to get out from under this."
Blot Out The Sky
It is valid in a Lurrus deck and could have one shot you at any point the opponent had 8 or more available mana.
They weren't playing white so definitely didn't have it, but it IS valid is a Lurrus deck (especially important to watch out for because both cards are WB, so it really could be there).
Is Bear panting in the background during some of the dech tech lol?
Its at least more interesting than just casting approach and the one ring.
This is the type of deck i hate to play against but love to play.
Oh, that second opponent 😂
If an opponent were to play The One Ring and the combo started, would the game never end?
27:00 couldn't you leyline binding the tainted remedy?
Opponent in game 1 didn’t scoop because you have yet to show a wincon, you discarded a combo piece and decks like this sometimes get greedy and only run one.
Hence the reading unlife a few times. To see if it prevented losing from you decking yourself
I think he also wanted more info to use for sideboarding in the following match.
I built an oloro deck recently for edh with friends, and threw solemnity on my sideboard for a friend who runs a populate deck... I happened to run glacial chasm in my deck as the point of the deck is sort of a psuedo stax deck. Gain life and just draw the game out. I was very happy when I realized this combo works similarly to phyrexian unlife. :) Such a stupid combo when you get it off, and its weird that the decks that play these cards have means to cut back on the interactions opponents can have with it just... naturally. Like you said its just kinda build to counter a lot of meta choices right now.
I guarantee your G3 opponent saw you hover over Sanguine Bond, noticed that it said "Target" at the same moment you did, and came to the same conclusion as you at the same time, but also completely forgot about the Mt Doom they seemed to notice as well.
I really hope they put Geralf's Messenger and Kitchen Finks into arena. I want to use them with Alter of Dementia and Solemnity.
Considering how many cards are counters-dependent in Modern, I'd be interested to see how it works as a sideboard option in Modern. It severely slows down a lot of strategies in the format, especially Lil Sheoldred (bowmasters) and the Ring.
Can someone explain to me why he was saying that in Match 2 Game 2 he was going to lose (before they exiled the sanguine bonds)?
I did learn one valuable lesson, don't play tefferi protection to avoid board wipe, you just instantly die.
Love this deck
Meliria hardlocks with phyrexian unlife too but allows other counters on things.
Phyrexian unlife +solemnity is what I've been running on commander. Now arena needs to get the best enchantment to pair up with solemnity, Decree of Silence.
Tainted Remedy + Beacon of Immortality is fun.
31:58 reaction HALL OF FAME
Leyline binding can get rid of tainted remedy. A big counter to your whole deck would be "Back to Nature"
What about soul warden to start the combo? Easy to cast
26:33 They saw Sanguine bond in the spoilers and immediately put Tainted Remedy in the sideboard of all of there black decks is my guess. That or they really hate mono white lifegain.
48:11 Cici meowing 🥺
Hey, I was wondering if there was some new against the odds decklist out. Went against someone using this deck just yesterday.
I was using a modified against the odds deck myself (think eldrazi displacer and containment priest stax). Beat the hell outta the guy using this deck because I kept removing their key enchantments and beating them down with creature lands.
Anyone know why he wasn't getting poison counters in the second game against Rakdos burn? He didn't have Solemnity out. Just Phyrexian Unlife. He went negative more than once before winning.
Because the damage is done at once, aka 2 -> -3 in one game action, and the Poison counters are only added when you are at or below 0 life. If the opponent had used the damage land first he would have been forced to play Solemnity.
@@AnExercisInThought Ohhhhh. Gotcha. Thank you very much for the explanation!!
Anyone got a decklist similar to the monoblack superfriends?
this is absolutely brutal
match 2 game 2 you had won :black market must choose a least 1 mode, so you can tutor upkeep, play 2nd piece of combo and trigger before he can use any pw or cast enchant gg :p
Why didnt you leyline bind the thing killing your lifegain? I mean yeah after he hit both your other half finisher, but before that you went total defeatist?
So basically just play Solemnity and Leyline to beat this format? Noice!
locking out all these rakdos decks lets go~
What happens when you do the Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond combo but your opponent uses Teferi's Protection? The game won't end?
He said nobody knows this deck exists. I beg to differ. The exclusive blood with something that makes them lose life when you gain life has been a thing for a while. It’s the reason I hate to face decks like this and love running tainted remedy. The only wrinkle you introduced was the solemnity and can’t die combo. I might steal that idea
??? You start off saying that someone does know the deck exists, then you go on to describe a different deck altogether. I don't understand your point.
I was pointing out a slight variation of the the deck I face regularly on arena. The only difference is the never die combo that he added. Either way tainted remedy is my favorite for facing decks like this. Make sense now?
if your playing this in paper, use Vito istead of sanguine bond
Sneaky bear at the end!
I actually got a Calix Historic Brawl deck with multiple locks.
Why are you not playing the one green mana dig 5 deep for enchantments? Commune with the gods and the other one... Seems better than enchantress and you can hit lands as well...